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By 1860 a jetty on the Hooghly River was constructed to transport the products from the factory. A 4 ft 0in (1222cm) gauge (''see Gauge Note'') tramway was laid to connect the factory to the jetty. It is thought the tramway was worked by animals <ref name =WB141/>.
During the building of the [[Calcutta Port Commissioners' Railway|Calcutta Port Commissioners' Kidderpore Dock]] in the mid 1880's a 3½ mile(5.6km) long temporaryline temporary line was laid for the transportation of bricks from Akra for the new docks. It is thought this was a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line using locomotives and wagons on hire from the [[Calcutta Municipal Railway]] <ref name =WB141/>.
In 1889 the brickworks was leased to a private contractor for five years and renewed in 1994. It is if the private contactor took over the 4 ft 0in tramway <ref name =WB141/>.
